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Does Scanning and Digitizing Engineering Drawings Make Sense?

Compare Accessing Hard Copy Engineering Drawing Verses Retrieving Digitized Engineering Drawings	Single Drawing Cost	Weekly Cost (Retrieving 50 Drawings per week)	Annual Cost (Retrieving 50 Drawings Weekly)
Access Drawing & Scan Drawing(minutes)	15	0	0
Rotate Drawing, Assign File Name, Index Two Fields (Minutes)	8	0	0
Return Document to Storage Cabinet, Refile (minutes)	5	0	0
Total Labor time (minutes)	26	0	0
Labor rate per hour, direct	$ 25.00	0	0
Labor Overhead %	25%	0	0
Cost to Retrieve a Paper Drawing	$ 13.54	$ 667.08	$ 35,208.33

Accessing Digitized Drawings	$ 1.04	$ 52.08	$ 2,708.33